Thursday, 21 January 2016

Lady Gaga Extended Homework Project.


Introduction - 

Lady Gaga is a Pop Star/Performer who sings and dances. She is very unique and different, in some ways follows Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, David Bowie and other unique stars. She is famous for many things, especially her singing, but also is well known for the Dress made of Meat, which she once wore, and also for starring in American Horror Story Season 5 - Hotel. Gaga's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta and she was born in Manhattan, New York, United States of America on March 28th 1986. She is now 29 years of age. She went to Tisch School Of The Arts, and New York University; she dropped out of University though. Gaga does believe in Jesus, she went to a Catholic School, however she is a selfist. A selfist is someone who believes that God is inside of us all and we are all a god to our selves. 

Early Career - 

Gaga recorded a few songs with Hip-Hop artist Grandmaster Melle Mel before the fame for an Audio book, then creating her own band which were called the "Stefani Germanotta" band. They played gigs in small town bars, and in small theatres until creating a small fan base, and a Music Producer Joe Vulpis noticed them, making the Band a little larger, playing other small gigs in New York. After a few years, in 2006 Gaga was signed by Def Jam records, and many other Record Companies, such as Streamline Records also. By this time Lady Gaga started to grow, getting larger and larger and eventually started to create a larger Fan Base. Like an average singer/songwriter.

The Fame - 

By 2008, Gaga lived in Los Angeles and her career was increasing and spreading rapidly and very successfully. Whilst she was here, she started to produce her first Debut album; The Fame. It was played on Radio and released to shops slowly, and songs like Just Dance and Poker Face became very popular and well known, by 2009 selling over 9 million records. Her song Poker Face then won Best Dance Recording at Annual Grammy Awards, for Song and Record of the year! The album, The Fame itself was nominated for Album Of The Year and won Best Dance Album at the same award ceremony. Later on she carried or to produce many different songs and albums, winning awards and achieving a great status, songs like Paparazzi won Best Special Effects and other awards. Gaga was getting big, very fast, winning awards for nearly every album produced. Over the years, Gaga has become very successful and still is to this day, she became famous after the awards she received and the signings of Record Companies. An example of what Gaga is well known for could be her song Poker Face, Paparazzi, the album Born This Way, or The Fame. Lady Gaga is also very well known for her unique style, clothing, video and song. Using Religion and other styles that would not be seen in Pop music, and making them fit, also for the dress she wore which was completely made out of meat, and other crazy and unique clothing styles.

Musical Style and Influences - 

Her music normally associates with genre's like Pop, Electronica and Dance, but something smart about Lady Gag is that she is able to add other unconventional themes to these types of music and make them work, for example, Religion in the song "Judas", or the style of punk or rock music is used, especially in the song Judas and Born This Way Album Cover. It seems very Gothic but it is still a Pop Album cover, which is smart and works for Gaga. She has before been associated with other Pop Stars/Performers, such as Tony Bennett and many more. Her music style has been influenced by other Artists, some say she copied the Style of David Bowie and Madonna, in her album cover "Born This Way" a fake beauty spot is shown, meaning she copied the style of Marilyn Monroe. On top of this, we could say that she has influenced or inspired others, like they have copied/taken what she does and done it themselves, or manipulated it. People like Peaches, a female singer/songwriter, Fishcerspooner, a male singer/songwriter, Ke$ha, are all similar to Lady Gaga, this doesn't go to say that they copied her, they may just be similar or inspired by Gaga. 

Controversy - 

There has been alot of Controversy with Lady Gage, as she puts herself out there and it seems sometimes she purposely tries to wind people up and offend them. Most of all with her Clothing style, people were not sure about the Meat Dress, some people thought it was pure art, some believed it was disgusting. In the song Born This way, she very much showed herself off, wearing only a small amount of tape on her breasts hiding them just enough to not see them. She has also been accused of many video nasties, explicit and offensive music videos, nudity and offensive Catholic Imagery, in the song Alejandro, we see Gaga sucking on some Rosary Beeds, which was seen offensive and sexually explicit to some viewers. However, one of Gaga's biggest Controversy was with the song Judas. It had Religious iconography and offended many of it's viewers, some say it humiliated and almost destroyed the reputation of the Christian Religion, due to how Gaga confesses her love to the disciple Judas who betrayed Jesus and sold him to execution. She also disrespects this throughout the whole song. You can see why this may offend some. From what we can see, this hasn't had much of an affect on her career, yes it has forced her to answer some questions, but even after all the problems she still went on to surprise her fans with more and more unique and sometimes rude albums/song/music videos.

Ideologies and Beliefs - 

Gaga is passionate about Selfism, she believes that God is inside all of us and is very passionate about this. She is passionate about her music, other artists music and the meaning of this music. What the music means to her, the producer and the audience.
Gaga takes part in many Charity events and donates to Charities, also follows these causes related to these charities and other causes, such as - 
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